Linux as a Server???

[dookiesmack]

Which distro would you recommend for a standard linux server? (e.g. File, Print, WEB). On a machine with 256mb ram 1ghz cpu? I want to setup a print server so my wife and kids can print to my laserjet but I also wanted to setup up a web server.

[snarkout]

I'd imagine anything would run fine w/ those specs. This is assuming that you aren't planning on having 10k hits an hour on your websites.

[IceMan]

Hi,

if You want a really, really easy install - try out

ClarkConnect 3.2 Home edition
http://www.clarkconnect.com/

Or

SME Server 7.x
http://contribs.org/modules/news/

These are all "Server in a Box" distros, really easy to set up, You use a web interface to set up the server, once it has been installed. They are both based on the CentOS distro.

If You want a little more control of the install, You could try out Centos, Debian, Slackware, Suse - Just to name a few. I like CentOS and SUSE - But that's just me ...

Good luck !

[Tsuroerusu]

Which distro would you recommend for a standard linux server? (e.g. File, Print, WEB). On a machine with 256mb ram 1ghz cpu? I want to setup a print server so my wife and kids can print to my laserjet but I also wanted to setup up a web server.

I say go with CentOS or SUSE, I like SUSE because it's great management tools. You can either choose to install the GUI, configure the system and diable it, or just install a minimal test-based system with the ncurses version of YaST which offers pretty much the same functionality as the GUI.

SUSE also comes with a big bunch of drivers for all sorts of good stuff, has a good GUI for setting up Samba, Apache the firewall and all that good stuff.

When I do servers with SUSE I just do a text install and configure it using the ncurses version of YaST, works out pretty well, and when I'm lazy I just install the KDE desktop, configure it, and disable X so that it just dumps me to a Bash login after the system ha booted.